Jul. Nurse, will you go with me into my closet, To help me sort such needful ornaments As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow? La. Cap. No, not till Thursday: there is time enough. Cap. Go, Nurse, go with her. - We'll to church to[Exeunt JULIET and Nurse. morrow. La. Cap. We shall be short in our provision: 'Tis now near night. Cap. Tush! I will stir about, And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife. Go thou to Juliet; help to deck up her: I'll not to bed to-night; let me alone: I'll play the housewife for this once. What, ho! They are all forth: well, I will walk myself To County Paris, to prepare up him Against to-morrow. My heart is wond'rous light, Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd. [Exeunt. SCENE III. JULIET'S Chamber. Enter JULIET and Nurse. Jul. Ay, those attires are best: Nurse, I pray thee, leave me to myself to-night; For I have need of many orisons but, gentle To move the Heavens to smile upon my state, Which, well thou know'st, is cross and full of sin. Enter Lady Capulet. La. Cap. What, are you busy, ho? need you my help? Jul. No, madam; we have cull'd such necessaries As are behoveful for our state to-morrow: So please you, let me now be left alone, And let the Nurse this night sit up with you; For, I am sure, you have your hands full all, La. Cap. Good night: Get thee to bed, and rest; for thou hast need. [Exeunt Lady CAPULET and Nurse, Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. Jul. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, My dismal scene I needs must act alone. What if this mixture do not work at all, I fear it is; and yet, methinks, it should not, I wake before the time that Romeo Come to redeem me? there's a fearful point! To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in, Or, if I live, is it not very like, The horrible conceit of death and night, Together with the terror of the place,- Where, for these many hundred years, the bones Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth, So early waking, what with loathsome smells, [She throws herself on the bed. SCENE IV. A Hall in CAPULET'S House. Enter Lady CAPULET and Nurse. La. Cap. Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, Nurse. Nurse. They call for dates and quinces in the pastry. Enter CAPULET. Cap. Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow'd, The curfew bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock: Spare not for cost. Nurse. Go, go, you cot-quean, go. Get you to bed: 'faith, you'll be sick to-morrow Cap. No, not a whit. What! I have watch'd ere now All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick. La. Cap. Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time; But I will watch you from such watching now. [Exeunt Lady CAPULET and Nurse. Cap. A jealous-hood, a jealous-hood! fellow, What's there? Now, Enter Servants, with spits, logs, and baskets. 1 Serv. Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what. Cap. Make haste, make haste. [Exit 1 Serv.]Sirrah, fetch drier logs: Call Peter, he will shew thee where they are. 2 Serv. I have a head, sir, that will find out logs, And never trouble Peter for the matter. [Exit. Cap. 'Mass, and well said; a merry whoreson, ha! Thou shalt be logger-head. Good Father! 'tis day: The County will be here with music straight, [Music within. For so he said he would.—I hear him near. Enter Nurse. Go, waken Juliet; go, and trim her up: I'll go and chat with Paris. — Hie, make haste, [Exeunt. SCENE V. JULIET'S Chamber; JULIET on the Bed. Enter Nurse. Nurse. Mistress! what, mistress! — Juliet! fast, I warrant her, she: Why, lamb! why, lady!-fie, you slug-a-bed! — Why, love, I say!-madam! sweet-heart! — why, bride! What, not a word?-you take your pennyworths now : Sleep for a week; for the next night, I warrant, That you shall rest but little. - God forgive me, I needs must wake her. Madam, madam, madam! Enter Lady CApulet. La. Cap. What noise is here? O lamentable day! Look, look! O heavy day! La. Cap. What is the matter? |